The aristocratic vice: The medical treatment of drug addiction at the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1900
Year: 2026
Type: other
Abstract: For most of the nineteenth century, drug addicts did not constitute a deviant social group but were simply individuals guilty of a specific moral transgression. By the 1920s, however, addicts were clearly social deviants, defined by both illness and by vice, and demanded institutional isolation.
Source: PubMed
DOI: 10.25316/8yj6-9q31
Author: Cheryl L Krasnick
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2403570484